Since 2011, I have done an annual deep dive into the six days of the Gulph Mills Encampment of December 12 – 19, 1777. General George Washington and the Continental Army encamped in Gulph Mills on those six days as they, the Continental Congress, the Pennsylvania General Assembly, Ben Franklin and his fellow American Commissioners in France trying to convince King Louis XVI to come into the war to support the new United States, and the average citizen faced pivotal issues as to the progression of the American Revolution and the Revolutionary War. Nothing, especially victory, was certain at that time.
My deep dive this year will begin on December 10 and run through December 19 on this blog and my social media.
I detail this pivotal microcosm of the Revolutionary War in my award-winning book, Threshold to Valley Forge: The Six Days of the Gulph Mills Encampment, which was released earlier this year.
I recorded a few episodes about the critical lead up to the Gulph Mills Encampment in my Threshold to Valley Forge podcast. You can access those episodes here (listed in the order that I recorded them):
How I came to write Threshold to Valley Forge and background on the Gulph Mills Encampment
Five Main Themes of Significant Events During the Valley Forge Encampment
The Continental Army and the New Nation: In Search of a Way Forward
I hope you enjoy listening to this information on the environment in which the Gulph Mills Encampment began.
Watch this space for my deep dives beginning December 10.
Peace—
Sheilah
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